Jourdan Dunn, Best Model Of The Year At British Fashion Awards!

Look who won the Best Model Award!!! A black beautiful girl! Jourdan Dunn was named Best Model of the Year by the Brit Fashion Elite at the British Fashion Awards 2008.

If the world needed more confirmation that the catwalks have to spice some color to keep up with the reality, here’s one more! Jourdan, you go girl! Show them what you’re made of and may them feel ashamed for still throwing such white runways! Oh, btw, she won the title while Aggy was a runner up for the Best Model too! (photos via 1, 2)

Well it was an obvious choice wasn’t it. They couldn’t give it to Aggy again could they.
Jourdan has been consistant and working hard. I still remember the first time I saw her with short-ish hair in an Alberta Ferretti runway 2 years ago I think. Since then she’s discreetly elbowed out of her way the few black models around at the time like Jaunel MacKenzie and Mimi Roche. Like a shy papillon she’s emerged into a beautiful woman.

I totally agree with you Ellington. I never understood why Jaunel and Mimi never made a bigger impact. Why do black and asian models have to be one season wonders or be favs of Miuccia or Meisel or Anna Wintour to get that golden door opened to them. The fashion press keep reporting that things are changing but I’d like to see more visual proof. And Naomi in Russia and Brazil doesn’t count.

Dolly Bird you’re right, then again, Agyness wasn’t almost there for the recent fashion weeks (claiming she was sick or something like that) so her modeling these past months is irrelevant.

While we’re talking change and more black models (and asian models too) there’s still so little done in the real world and I can’t understand why. People want a change. Why wouldn’t they give in to that?